Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Steady Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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I think the women, therefore, must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
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We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.